Copper Tinge

Copper Tinge 24" x 32" for sale on Etsy HERE

Copper Tinge is the product of my love affair with warm and luscious colors. I mixed copper paint with red and it made this deeply radiant color that I just adore. There are gold and bronze accent colors on the tops of the deepest textured elements and I painted the copper red into the recessed dots in the warm yellow area. This painting seems like a cross section of earth to me, but truly, it is an abstract painting with earthly elements. No deep meaning, just deep colors with the remnants of my passion I had while creating it.

Elegant Storm

Elegant Storm - 24" x 32" For sale on Etsy

In Elegant Storm, I experimented with mixing acrylic silver with blue acrylic paint for the middle section and it made the most lovely light blue with a hint of sparkle. I used more silver gray in the top portion and black and brown in the bottom with silver grazing over the tops of the texture. I even incorporated a little glass bead medium and silver foil flakes into the texture just to really emphasize that icy feel I was trying to achieve. I titled this painting Elegant Storm because I felt it became such an elegant and simple painting with a very rich feel to it, but it also has the feel of a magnificent snow storm on its way, complete with thunder lightening. It reminds me of a quietly sophisticated woman about to unleash her powers of verbal strength onto a world that needs to be re-educated and re-aligned with all that is good.

Evening Glitter

Evening Glitter 24"x 32" For Sale on Etsy 

Evening Glitter is one of the medium sized paintings I made for the William Woods Exhibit. These are colors I rarely use together, but because I  gave myself this focus of working with cool winter colors, this group of paintings evolved and it was a great chance to stretch my creative muscles.. It was also fun working with cool colors during the heat of summer! In the top portion there are little tiny circles that I stenciled in with Wood Icing and then painted silver to make them stand out on the evening sky. Below, on the white areas, there is a hint of green gold that I am in love with and an accent of silver on the tops of the white ledges. This painting gives me butterflies every time I look at it because, for me, it captures that magical moment when light snow is falling in the midnight sky and all you can see is glitter falling in the reflection of the moonlight. Takes my breath away thinking about it. Nature is truly inspiring.